Transmission electron microscope studies of the nuclear envelope in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 140, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 232-240

  Cohen, Merav ^a   Tzur, Yonatan B ^a   Neufeld, Esther ^a   Feinstein, Naomi ^a   Delannoy, Michael R ^b   Wilson, Katherine L ^b   Gruenbaum, Yosef ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Lamin; Nuclear envelope; Nuclear lamina; Nuclear pore complexes

Indexed keywords

EMERIN; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; LAMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO CELL; EUKARYOTE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR LAMINA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; THYMOPOIETINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036968817     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-8477(02)00516-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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